Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA Thursday, July 27, 1939 -MEATS- TROY MARKET Specials Saturday Veal Steak 95 C Per Pound fcww Roast 4 Of* Per Pound — 1 Stew i Cf* Per Pound 1 Leg-O-Lamb 99t k Per Pound Mutton Chops 9lit* Per Pound fcwl* Mutton Roast 1 ftf* Per Pound 1 QW TROY MARKET TROY, S. C. JACK GABLE, Prop. TODAY and ifi -■ ■ au.i.»i e.,""” .-...if T 'V .V* FRANK PARKER STOCK BRHXjEl “Read ’Em and Reap” our ads MAN yesterday Nobody knows how long Man has existed on this planet Earth. The deeper into the earth we dig, the more traces we find of Man in one form or another, buried under surface layers which took tens of thousands of years to form. The oldest type of Man of whom traces have been found vanished more than 30,000 years ago. He was the Neanderthal Man, some of | that wild dogs feasted whose bones were first found in Germany in 1856. Since then frag ments of the Neanderthal Man’s bones have been dug up in other parts of the world. Only a few weeks ago a Russian scientist, exploring a cave in Mid dle Asia, found a complete skeleton I years Russian of a child of this extinct race of|f OUn( J the body survive the last Ice Age, some 30,- 000 years ago. Yet it may be pos sible that some strain of what low-browed, gorilla-like race still mingles with the blood of some folk who are alive now. HORSES iced Not only extinct men but the remains of other animals whose species has completely vanished are dug up in every part of the world. The most amazing are those of animals trapped by the advancing ice of the last Ice Age, whose bodies completely preserved have been found in the still-frozen soil of northern Siberia. Many specimens of the gigantic mammoth, ancestor of the Indian elephants of today, have been found as the ground melted, some still so fresh after 30,006 years on their meat. Out of that region has just come the report of a still more amazing discovery. Digging into an ancient burial mound of some forgotten, minds. All human progress has been the result of the working of the human mind. One reason we think straighter and more clearly than the ancients did is that we have access to more facts than they knew. All science is con centrated upon the discovery of facts. No theory stands for a moment in the face of a single fact which doesn’t fit in with theory. x Accuracy Saves Employers Work On Wage Reports CHURCH om EtCH I CEMENtg 1st race, where the earth has been frozen solid for more than 10,000 said, “reports of explorers have received by the of a man sur- humankind. In the 100,000 years | r0 unded by ten horses, all saddled or so in which Neanderthal Man and br i d i e d and with flesh, skin roamed the earth he spread over a and halr intact after more than a wide range. hundred centuries in the natural The belief of scientists is that refri g erator other races of men of superior in- who the man waS( w hat his telligence, progenitors of those princely rank that cal i e d for the who live on earth today, drove the bU rial of his ten richly caparison- Neanderthal Man into the frozen ed horse s with him, nobody will North, where they were unable to | ever know< B ut every such dis covery throws more light on man kind’s dim and ancient past. PER CENT DISCOUNT! GOODYEAR s G-3 All - Weather Tires Ten Days Only — July 20 to 29 LOOK AT THESE SALE PRICES - > 4.40x21 4.50x21 $7.50 5.25x18 5.50x18 $8.95 4.75x19 5.00x19 $7.75 6.00x16 $10.75 5.25x17 5.50x17 $9.90 6.25x16 6.50x16 $! 2.95 INCLUDING YOUR OLD TIRE GULF SERVICE STATION J. T. FAULKNER, Prop. Phone 40 J. Main Street McCORMICK, S. C. m m a e JTO HEATS HEATS And that’s just what we mean, for we have Meats for the Breakfast, Meats for the Dinner, Meats for the Supper and Meats for the Picnic, or the Lunch Choicest Meats For All Occasions. Your patronage highly appreciated. - We deliver. D. C. TALBERT Phone 26 J. <* Main Street McCormick, S. C. 33 INI ION $1.28 c&hGeebdo& POCKET AND WRIST WATCHES *1.00 to *3.95 ALARM CLOCKS *1.00 to *2.95 l LOOK FOR ON THE DIAL TOOLS . history The oldest and best evidence that men once lived in any given spot on earth is the digging up the flint tools and weapons used by primitive Man. Indeed, scientists classify ancient humanity into the Paleolithic, Old- Stone Age, and the Neolithic, or New Stone Age. Paleolithic men never learned to use metals and their stone imple ments were crude indeed. By the fragments left behind them, the kind of people they were can be determined. Just now scientists are excited over the discovery, near Folsom, New Mexico, of stone implements greatly superior to those of the Indians, and buried in strata so deep as to indicate that their makers lived in America thousands of years before the Indians came. Who were these “Folsom men?” Where did they come from, how long did they live in America, where did they vanish to and why? Were they killed off by the Sibe rian tribes who crossed the Bering Strait and became what we call Indians? Or were they the ancestors of the highly civilized Aztecs of Mex ico or the Mayas of Yucatan? None of their bones have been found, but they have left evidence that they were skilled artisans and the First Americans. FLINT fire The last of a family which prac ticed the almost extinct art of flint-Knapping for nearly a thou sand years passed away when Fred Snare died 'in England a few months ago. “Knapping” or shap ing flint into usable forms is a craft older than blacksmithing, and less easily mastered. At the time of his death Fred Snare was making gunflints to ship to Africa, where the native tribes still use the ancient flint lock weapons, such as I used to see in old New England homes when I was a boy. Flint is not the hardest stone. Each worker’s Social Security number should be included in the employer’s quarterly wage report to the Government, which is due this month (July), it was stressed today by Miss Martha Pressly, Manager of the Social Security Board’s office in Greenwood, South Carolina. “In seme instances,” Miss Pressly worker’s wages Social Security Board have not contained each worker’s number and name. In order to credit, a worker’s wages correctly to hT& Social Security ac count, it is necessary to have both his name and number accurately reported. The name alone is not sufficient, because in more than 42 million accounts it is found that thousands of people have the same name. “Errors in preparing these quarterly wage reports—incorrect spelling of names or failure to include the number opposite each name—mean extra work for em ployers and for us. Further in quiry and revision of reports be come necessary when errors are made. “Benefits ,to workers insured under the Federal Old-Age Insur ance system are based on their wages received in covered employ ment. from the time the system went into effect on January 1, 1937. It is therefore important that each worker’s account con tain a record of every dollar of his wages from that date until he reaches age- 65, or the date of his death before 65”, Miss Pressly de clared. xx PLUM BRANCH BAPTIST CHURCH SCHEDULE PLUM BRANCH—Preaching and 3rd Sundays at 11:30 o’clock a. m. Sunday school every Sun day at 10:30 a. m. B. T. U. every Sunday evening at 7:30 o’clock. TROY—Preaching 2nd Sunday at 11:00 a. m., and 4th Sunday at 3:30 p. m. Sunday school one hour before preaching. BETHLEHEM — Preaching 2nd Sunday at 3 o’clock p. m. Sunday school at 10:30 o’clock a. m., ex cept on preaching day, when at o’clock p. m. PARKSVILLE — Preaching at 11:30 on 4th Sunday morning; Sunday school every Sunday at 10:30 a. m. MODOC — Sunday School at 10:30 a. m. every Sunday. Preach ing at 3:00 o’clock p. m., on the first Sunday. G. P. LANIER, Pastor. Pine Beetle Blamed On Man MT. CARMEL A. R. P. CHURCH Preaching, the 1st, 3rd and 5th Sabbaths at 11 a. m. Sabbath School every Sabbath at 10:15 a. m., Miss Lennie Covin, superintendent. Rev. S. W r. Baseball Games De pend On Forests South Carolina’s forests con tribute toward the great national pastime of baseball advises the State Forest Service. Hickory and ash are made into baseball bats in a South Carolina factory at Greenville and these woods are produced in the forests and woodlands of the state. One often hears of a ball player’s swinging the “willow” but the PRESSLY MEMORIAL A. R. P. / CHURCH, McCORMICK. Preaching, the 2nd and 4th Sab baths at 11 a. m. Sabbath School every Sabbath at 10:15 a. m., Marshall Creswell, Supt. Rev. S. W. Reid, Pastor. The Rev. R. E. Craig makes the following announcements concern ing the services at the churches in his charge: TROY A. R. P. CHURCH Morning service on the first, third and fifth Sabbaths at 11 o’clock. Afternoon service on the second and fourth Sabbaths at 3:30 o’clock. Sabbath School on the first, third and fifth Sabbaths at 10 o’clock and on the second and fourth Sabbaths at 2:30 o’clock. Y. P. C. U. on first, third and fifth Sabbaths at 7 o’clock. CEDAR SPRINGS A. R. P. CHURCH Morning service on the second and fourth Sabbaths at 11:15 o’clock. Sabbath School on the second and fourth Sabbaths at 10:30 o’clock. BRADLEY A. R. P. CHURCH Afternoon service on the first, third and fifth Sabbaths at 3:45 p. m. Sabbath School on first, third and fifth Sabbaths at 3:00 o’clock. You are invited to worship with us. Rev, R. E. Craig, Pastor. METHODIST CHURCH SCHEDULE McCormick Methodist Church— Sunday School every Sunday at 10:00 a. m.; Preaching at 11:00 a. m. 1st, 2nd and 3rd Sundays, and at 8:00 o’clock every Sunday evening. Prayer meeting Wednesday even- day evening at 6:30 o’clock, and Senior League at 7:15. Trov Methodist Church.—Sunday School at 10:00 a. m. 1st, 3rd and 4th Sundays: 2nd Sundays at -3:00 p. m.; preaching 2nd Sunday 4:00 p. m.; 4th Sunday 11 a. m. The Epworth League meets 2nd and 4th Sundays at 8 o’clock. Rev. M. E. Derrick, Pastor. - ■ r W XAVs but it is the most widely distrib- fences are made of the same ma- woo'd of the willow tree is rarely intermediate League every Sun- if ever used for ball bats. How- “ “ ever, it is used for cricket bats and probably after the game of base ball was invented the same term was used to designate a baseball bat regardless of the species of wood used in making it. In addition to the wood in the bats, forest products in the form of tannic acid extracts from the fast disappearing chestnut tree or from the oaks and the hemlock xre used in the tanning of the leather in gloves and mitts used by the players. Tall, straight, oressure-crecsoted pine poles are ised to support the flood lights for night games and smaller poles are used for backstop supports. Bleachers and grand stands are made of p;ne and cypress while uted of the hard, brittle rocks, and so it was used by primitive races of men all over the world, for tools and weapons and for striking fire. Whoever first discovered that the spark from one flint striking another flint would set fire to dry leaves or straw, and that the fire would not only keep the home save warm but improved the taste of animal flesh. when the game was roasted over the flame, was the real father of civilization. That fire could be started ir other ways mankind did not lean until less than two hundred year ago. In my grandfather’s tim country folk still used flint an steel, for matches had not bee invented. MIND tomorrm Going back into what moder: science has learned about the de velopment of modern Man fron his primitive prototypes impresse me with the fact that the humai race is steadily improving. We live longer than our ancestors did, are physically better equipped for the battle of life, and have better functioning and better trained terials. Naturally if knotty boards are used in the fences the knot holes are ideal places for small boys to view the game without paying. The score board also comes from ■ihe forest and the advertising signs surrounding the outfield are of wood as well as the “press box” perched high on the roof of the grandstand directly in rear of the lome plate. Even the score cards and pro grams are made from the fibres ecured from the pines and hard- voods of South Carolina’s forests. !Tie ink on the score cards con- ains rosin, the paint on the signs vas probably thinned with ter- jentine and the soap used to keep ihe players clothing clean also contains rosin—all produced from our Southern pine trees. “A baseball fan or player rarely relates the sport to our woodlands but in reality it would be diffi cult to conduct a ball game inex pensively, comfortably and easily without the products of our for ests regardless of whether it is a sand lot game or a professional performance.” LONG CANE A. R. P. CHURCH Services at Long Cane on the First and Third Sabbaths of each month. Sabbath School at 3:00 P. M. Mr. Horace D. Brown, Superinten dent. x Sermon by the pastor at 4:00 P. M. The public is cordially invited to these services. W. C. Kerr, Pastor. H &rEfrc'm H Without Laxatives—and You’ll Eat Everything from Soup to Nuta Hie Ftomad should direst two pounds of food daily. When you eat heavy, greasy, coarse or rich fooda or when you are nervous, hurried or ehew poorly—your stomach often i>ours out too much fluid. Your food doesn't digest and you have gas. hei itbum, nausea, pain vr tour stomach. You feel tour, airk and upset all over. Doctors »ay never take a laiatlve for stomach pain, it is dangerous snd foofiali. It takes those little black tablets called Bell-ana for Indigestion to make the excess stomach fluids harmless, relieve distress in no time and put you back <m your feet. Relief is so quick it is amazing and one 25e package proves It. Ask for BeU-aua tor Indigestion. 81,209 malaria Cases reported in the U. S. in 1938! DONT DELAY! START TODAY with 666 Checks Malaria in seven days. Insurance Fire Insurance And AH Other Kinds of Insurance In eluding Life Insurance. HUGH C. BROWN, McCORMICK, S. C. The city property owners who misused their pine trees during the past fall, winter and spring are just now reaping the results of this lack of foresight. The of fice of the City Park and Shade Tree Departments and that of the State Forester and the District Foresters are called almost daily to examine pine trees on lawns and around houses which are at tacked by pine beetles. The cause of the trouble can usually be traced to one of several things which could have been a- voided by what a medical man might term “preventative medi cine.” One of the things which lead up to an insect attack is the de plorable practice of burning over the lawn or grass surrounding a house where pine trees are situated. Sometimes immediately prior' to the commencement of house construction activities the lot or land is burned over. The burning of the grass and leaf lit ter robs the trees of food, scorches surface roots and rootlets, scorches the bases of the trees and fre quently injures or destroys a por tion of the foliage. Naturally the tree is weakened and the sick tree becomes a focal point for the in sects which ordinarily do not at tack a healthy tree. Another way in which pine trees are made easy victims for pine beetles is to fill in around their bases and to cover their roots with a covering of clay or any other material which excludes air from the roots and bark. Where no filling is done around a house the pines are usually healthy and able to survive insect attacks. However, if clay or compact soil is placed ovefr their roots or ardund the trunks it is generally a matter of only a few months before they get sick, and are then attacked by lordes of small black-winged beetles which bore through the bark into the soft growing cam bium layer of wood just beneath the bark. From the entrance hole exudes a mound composed of a mixture of pink dust embedded in crumbly resin—the resin is gen erated by the tree to heal the wound. However, if the tree is too sick to generate enough resin, to discourage the efforts of the beetles the flow ceases and he and his fellows encircle the tree and cause its death. Late-comers en ter the tree without being im peded by the flow of resin as by then the tree is too far gone to offer any resistance. Naturally, when the beetles emerge (together with the multitude of young ones) no resin appears at the emergence holes. Around the base of the dying tree appears the fine yel lowish-brown dust of the borings and the iffedles turn brown and start to fill. Another way in which beetles are encouraged to attack even healthy trees is to pile fresh cut pine wood on newly sawed lumber near or against pine trees. The bugs are attracted by the fer menting odor of the liquids con tained in the wood or lumber and start work on any having bark on it. The next meal is at the near est pine tree and sometimes by sheer force of numbers they are able to cause its destruction. The farmer knows that if he wishes to kill a pine tr^e all he has to do is pile freshly cut pine brush or fuelwood around a healthy tree in the summer time and the in sects will do the job for him. However, few city folks know this and make the mistake of piling fresh-cut pine wood or lumber around trees they prize highly. The arborist and the forester usually advise owners of pine trses on lawns or in the-vicinity of residences to (a) avoid burning (b) avoid filling around pine trees and over their roots and (c) dot not pile anything against pine, trees and most particularly do not. pile wood against them. When a tree is lightly attacked the best thing is to restore normal conditions by removing the of fending earth and all fresh cut pine wood or lumber from its vicinity, water the tree if the ground is dry and feed it carefully with a non-mineral fertilizer. However, if the leaves are brown, or are turning brown, cut the tree down, strip off the bark from the large limbs and trunk and bum the bark, small limbs and twigs as quickly as possible, advises the State Forest Service. For Best Prices on Cattle, Hogs, and Calves, see J. L* Smith, McCormick, S. C..